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Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days By: Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845-1924) |
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Transcriber's Note: The author's inconsistent chapter descriptions
and spelling of proper names have been preserved. [Illustration: DEATH OF ST BEDE. (From the Original Picture at St
Cuthbert's College, Ushaw.) [ Frontispiece ]
OUR
CATHOLIC HERITAGE
IN
ENGLISH LITERATURE BY
EMILY HICKEY WITH FRONTISPIECE IN COLOUR
AND FOUR FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. London
SANDS & CO.
15 KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN
AND EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW 1910
To THE LORD ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER THIS LITTLE BOOK IS INSCRIBED
BY HIS GRACE'S KIND AND
VALUED PERMISSION. June, 1910.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I The beginnings of Literature in England. Two poets of the best period of
our old poetry, Caedmon and Cynewulf. The language they wrote in.
The monastery at Whitby. The story of Caedmon's gift of song.
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CHAPTER II Caedmon and his influence. Poem, "Genesis." "The Fall of the Angels."
"Exodus." English a war loving race. Destruction of the Egyptians.
Fate and the Lord of Fate. 24
CHAPTER III Allegory. Principle of comparison important in life, language,
literature. Early use of symbolism; suggested reasons for this. Poem
of the Phoenix. Allegorical interpretation of the story. Celtic
influence on English poetry. Gifts of colour, fervour, glow. Various
gifts of various nations enriching one another. 31
CHAPTER IV Prose writing. St Bede the Venerable. His love of truth. His industry
and carefulness. Cuthbert's account of his last days. "Bede whom God
loved". 42
CHAPTER V King Alfred, first layman to be a great power in literature; man of
action; of thought; of endurance. Freedom first great possession;
afterwards learning and culture. Alfred a loyal Son of the Church.
Founder of English prose. Earliest literature of a nation in verse;
why. Influence of Rome on Alfred. 48
CHAPTER VI Decay of learning in England. Revival under Alfred. His translations.
Edits English Chronicle. His helpers. Some of his sayings.
Missionary spirit. "Alfred commanded to make me". 55
CHAPTER VII Some of greatest pre Conquest poetry associated with name of Cynewulf.
Guesses about him. Little known. Probably North countryman, eighth
century, an educated man. Finding of the Cross. Elene, story of St
Helena's mission. Constantine goes to fight invaders. Vision of the
Cross. Victory. Journey of St Helena, and search for the Cross. The
Finding. 64
CHAPTER VIII The Poet's love of the Cross: how he saw it in a double aspect. The
dream of the Holy Rood. The Ruthwell Cross. 73
CHAPTER IX "Judith," a great poem founded on Scripture story. Authorship uncertain.
Part of it lost. Quotations from it. Description of Holofernes'
banquet as a Saxon feast. Story of Judith dwelt on to encourage
resistance to Danes and Northmen. 83
CHAPTER X Byrthnoth, the leader of the East Angles against Anlaf the Dane. Refusal
to pay unjust tribute. Heroic fight. 90
CHAPTER XI The literature of one people owes a debt to that of others.
Help bringers. Great work of Benedictine monks. Our debt to Ireland.
The English Chronicle's account of the Martyrdom of St Ælfeah. 97
CHAPTER XII Abbot Ælfric, writer of Homilies, Lives of Saints, and other works.
Wulfstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. 104
CHAPTER XIII Love of books is love of part of God's world. In books we commune with
the spirit of their writers. The Church the mother of all Christian
art and literature. Catholic literature saturated with Holy
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